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Five things

Yesterday I spent a pleasant couple of hours in the flow writing cards to some of the sweetest people in my world. It makes me happy knowing they’re going to find something bright and cheerful in the mail, just like I do every month with my stationery subscription from A Beautiful Mess. I love the Beautiful Mess girls and just about everything they do. Last summer they announced they’re working on a cookbook (yay!) but it’ll probably be another year and a half before it comes out (boo). Here’s four other highlights from last week.

2. Last night’s dinner, an impromptu dish I’m calling SuperGreens 10-Veggie Rotini with Crumbled Feta. There’s five veggies in the pasta (kale, broccoli, parsley, zucchini and spinach) and five veggies on the side. (The pasta is new from Catelli and was sent to me to try.) James asked why the rotini was green and Lily sneered “probably because there’s vegetables in it” (puh!) but they both ate it without any complaint. I dare say they even liked it! (Which isn’t going out on much of a limb since I just asked Lily what she thought of it and she said it was really good. )

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I love your five things posts! I’ve been debating signing up for one of the A Beautiful Mess subscriptions. I want it, but I deffinitely don’t need it…yet ;). I got a copy of Batch this week and I can’t wait to jump into it. I really like the look of the book and the way they’ve laid it out.

Thank you so much! Every month I look at what’s in ABM’s Messy Box and wish I could justify getting it (even one month) but I don’t scrapbook, so that would be a bit much. 😦 This week I barbecued a couple dozen peaches to make Batch’s canned peach slices (they recommend BBQ’ing the peaches to remove the skin) but I didn’t like the texture of the peaches afterwards (I don’t think they were ripe enough) so I used them in a crumble. But much more experimenting to come! What recipes do you think you’ll try?

SPRING !!!!! Walking to the gym, seeing the buds come out on the trees right outside my second floor condo window, leaves on the tress camouflaging the store and parking lot across the street, seeing the grass get greener every day, feeling the sun on my back and nothing but sandals on my feet, hearing the birds singing their happy songs at four in the morning…..YEAH !!!!